The FIFA World Cup is football’s ultimate prize.
Whether it’s Pelé and Brazil, Andrés Iniesta guiding Spain, or—most recently—Lionel Messi completing his destiny with Argentina, the World Cup trophy is reserved only for the game’s greatest teams and players.
Held every four years since its inaugural edition in 1930—apart from a break in the 1940s due to World War II—the tournament has seen just eight nations lift the famous trophy, some multiple times and others only once.
Here, we look back at every team to have won the world’s most prestigious football tournament—along with each edition’s runners-up and third-place finishers.
